Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy

• Senior Researcher at The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS)

Using the Philippinesʼ first nationally representative survey designed to characterise digital commercial and non-commercial engagements, including the use of information and communications technology (ICT), the digital economy, and technology-enabled activities, we investigate the presence of gendered dispari ties in online marketplaces. This is c...

Using the Philippines' first-ever nationally representative survey designed for characterizing digital commercial and noncommercial engagements, including ICT use, digital economy, and technology-enabled incidents, we investigate the presence of gendered disparities in online marketplaces. Doing this is consistent with the spirit of a gender and de...

Cognizant of the value, contribution, and challenges in the country’s agricultural finance, the government has intensified its lending programs to help the sector, particularly smallholders, thus, boosting affordable and easy access retail lending in recent years. Despite these efforts, however, significant problems remain, including the lack of ma...

While the Philippines has a long history of trade liberalization efforts and market-oriented reforms, the country has to yet to see a genuine structural transformation. Recently, there are efforts to transform the global competitiveness of the manufacturing industry through backward and forward linkages to create decent jobs and promote sustainable...

Current global trends show that boys consistently underperform in the academic front, an observation noted in the Philippines as well. At the national level, a clear reversal of the gender schooling gap between men and women is evident. However, patterns also reveal that there are regions where men have comparable schooling years with women. To mak...

While the Philippines has achieved several milestones advancing gender equality in the country, there are some areas that can still benefit from further government interventions. One such area pertains to the moderate female participation in the labor market, which hardly improved in the last 26 years. The lackluster participation of women in the l...

Abstract. The world of work is constantly evolving because jobs are created and destroyed, a process that is increasingly becoming conspicuous due to significant technological advances, notably in ICT and computing. Invariably, poor national skills profiles hurt the economy, impede the efficient and timely accumulation of advanced or highly technic...

Platform work has the potential to help women reconcile the age-old conflict between unpaid work and market work. It also has the potential in helping achieve SDG targets on women empowerment and gender equality. However, there is a degree of precariousness in platform work, one that is reminiscent of informal work. Concerns on whether platforms ar...

The emergence of digital labor platforms has broadened market work opportunities although certain segments of the population, such as women and those belonging to the younger generation may be naturally drawn to platform or online work. This has important implications on skill formation and human capital development especially in countries where on...

The landscape of life and work, once shaped by the advancements in ICT, is being disrupted once again due to the ongoing pandemic. As people adjust their attitudes towards risks and firms adjust their losses, platform work/online work, or work that is delivered and transacted online, is likely to become part of the new normal. This paper looks into...

Given new programs and policies in the Philippines, there is a need to formulate a macroeconometric model (MEM) to gain more insights on how the economy and its sectors are affected. This paper discusses the estimation of an annual MEM that will be used for policy analysis and forecasting with respect to the opportunities and challenges brought abo...

Weather is an integral part of our life and weather shocks can have severe implications on welfare. Given evidence that points to climate change resulting in altered patterns of weather parameters and given that the Philippines is one of the most vulnerable countries to climatic shifts, this paper aims to contribute to poverty studies in the countr...

This scoping paper traces the evolution of macroeconometric modelling approaches in literature. In particular, the Cowles Commission Approach, the , the London School of Economics Approach, and the General Equilibrium method are discussed by focusing on the theoretical underpinnings and assumptions of and criticisms on each model. The paper also pr...

Innovation is the synergistic use of resources, technology, capital, and information to achieve growth at different levels of the economy. Many studies abroad have already supported the hypothesis that innovation leads to a good firm performance and long-term economic growth. In the Philippines, some studies already analyze the effects of simple in...

Using a discrete/continuous modeling approach, this paper analyzes the gender dimension of energy use and consumption in the Philippines. Unlike the energy ladder model, this paper finds that households use a combination of energy sources in different weather fluctuation scenarios. Further, weather fluctuations have the highest effect on the energy...

This scoping paper presents the current landscape of the Philippine macroeconometric models by reviewing the inventory of earlier studies. It finds that a there is a need to devise a new model for the Philippines considering that only two models are actively being used in policy simulations. Disclaimer: The PIDS Discussion Paper Series constitutes...

Using fixed effects estimators to remove unobserved heterogeneity and instrumental variable technique to address the endogeneity of income, this paper analyzes the effect of weather events on welfare in the Philippines. The paper finds that, one, treating income as an exogenous variable underestimates the effect of income on the household’s resourc...

This paper is one of the few studies that systematically analyzes housework in the Philippines. It seeks to understand how wages and attitudes to work and family life affect the time devoted to housework. Based on different specifications and estimators, our findings indicate that respondents’ own wages are not a significant predictor of the hours...

There are few studies in the Philippines that analyze poverty dynamics. Studies that examine the effects of weather variability on food poverty dynamics are even fewer. Because some sectors are more adversely affected by the changing weather patterns, an analysis of the effects of weather variability on poverty is essential. Using a simple-spells a...

Between 1962 and 2013, China's agricultural employment share declined from 82% to 31%. The transfer of workers out of low-productivity agriculture is a fundamental pillar of China's aspirations to progress and eventually become a high-income economy. We hypothesize that the drivers of this decline have been the increase in income per capita, indust...

Using an Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model, this paper forecast when the agricultural employment share in China will be at 5%, the level observed in rich economies.

The literature on the finance–growth nexus highlights the importance of the financial cycle for the estimation of potential output of an economy. We estimate potential output growth for the G-5 countries, as well as for 10 high- and middle-income Asian economies, using a multivariate model that includes financial factors. We find that the latter ha...

This research aims to examine the sophistication of export portfolios of selected Association of South East Asian Nation (ASEAN) and developed Asian economies. It aims to provide evidence of where exactly ASEAN economies are in the context of exports sophistication and structural transformation. Results from a product space analysis indicate that a...

This paper uses panel data and two welfare indicators, namely per capita expenditure and per capita food expenditure, to determine the frequency that the households enter poverty and food poverty in the Philippines. Unlike other studies, this paper attributes similar factors to explain transient and chronic poverty but finds that these factors are...

This research is one of the few attempts to analyze chronic and transient poverty in the Philippines. Results indicate that poverty in the Philippines is largely comprised of chronic poverty with households in rural areas and Mindanao regions being the most affected. Using quantile regressions, results show that both chronic and transient poverty a...

Using a rich survey data collected in the southern part of the Philippines, this paper aims to study the effect of child labor on the child's schooling outcomes. Results indicate that the efficient allocation of time can offset the impact of an increase in the child's work hours. I f child labor cannot be prevented, the paper offers some directions...

This article provides counterfactual extensions to the Fields inequality decomposition framework and at the same time uses the nonparametric methodology in estimating bootstrap SEs and constructing confidence intervals. For methodological illustration, we decompose changes in schooling's inequality contribution into changes in attributes and return...

Using the product space and the index for product level sophistication, the performance of the Philippines' export basket is analyzed. Results indicate that while currently it has limited options for diversification, the country can still produce sophisticated exports given significant transformation of its production structure. Specific exports th...

This article analyses the dynamics of women's participation in the decisions made in the household by looking at the effects of events that transpired in the recent period. Results suggest that the wife's participation status is positively affected by the presence of parents, either hers or the spouse's, in the household. Results also show that the...

Using a survey data from Bangladesh, this paper employs a simple decomposition method to investigate the possible role of inequality in husband and wife's portfolio holdings to various intrahousehold issues. Results indicate that wives' intrahousehold environments are affected more by their portfolio than by their husband's asset and income holding...

Utilizing a rich survey data collected in the Southern part of the Philippines, this paper examines the time allocation of wives within the collective household framework by investigating not only the role of socioeconomic factors but also the influence of various intrahousehold power indicators. Analysis of autonomy and finality of intrahousehold...